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The Champlain Sea was near 450 feet above current Lake levels. Mt. Philo was an island at the time, projecting only a fraction of its mass above the surrounding water. It would have been utilized by the region's first inhabitants for occupation, food processing, and reconnaissance. With a broad perspective on the landscape, the eminence would play a significant role for their Native descendants. The Abenaki have their own name for the landmark: Mategwasaden - Rabbit Mountain. Immediately west, Thompson's Point remained a significant Abenaki community well into recent times.

In an ironic twist, the management plan for Mount Philo State Park states: "In the late 1800s, William Higbee, a Charlotte resident and journalist, wrote that Mt. Philo was named for an Indian fighter and famous hunter named Philo who camped on the mountain. One of the first written references to the Devils Chair was in an 1896 article that describes a natural rock outcrop by that name." People who are able to "read between the lines" will recognize here another displacement trope: the Devil epithet is often attached to Native sacred landscape features, and a description of "chair" or "seat" can refer to an elevated ceremonial site, used in recognition for its exposure to the sweep of landscape and sky.
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AND then show me how digging up the skeletal remains and artifacts connect to your mother or any of her ancestors, that are being dug up in and around Swanton, by state-sanctioned looters called archaeologists! When you can the above requests, then by all means I will be proven wrong. Until then I stand by what I've stated in my initial post. And that is, that these skeletal remains of indigenous peoples buried in N'dakinna (Swanton in particular) do not belong ancestrally or otherwise to you, to your mother, or any of your ancestors, and certainly not to the group up there in Swanton. It's identity theft and blatant theft (imho) based on my research, the State's research by the AG's Office, and the BIA's research and just plain common sense!
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The pattern of history is clear. Power (manifested as interest) has been present in every conflict throughout history no exception. It is the underlying motivation for war. Other cultural factors might change, but not power.
Interest cuts across all apparently unifying principles: family, kin, nation, religion, ideology, politics - everything. We unite with the enemies of our principles, because that is what serves our interest. It is power, not any of the above concepts, that is the cause of war.
It is the one thing we will destroy ourselves for, as well as everyone else. When core interests are threatened and existential threat looms nations go to war. There can be no compromise on these. As a result every civilization/nation eventually gets the war it is trying to avoid: utter defeat. This applies as much today as any other time in history. Deterrence doctrine, made for the 20th century Cold War is irrelevant in the 21st and will ultimately fail us. Deterrence can no longer prevent the scenarios where Mutual Assured Destruction will be resorted to. We will soon face the scenario that (unlike the Cuban missile crisis) one protagonist will not be able to step back from the brink, blindly stumbling into a situation they cannot de-escalate. All that is left is Deterrences fall-back position annihilation.
Leaders and decision-makers delude themselves, thinking they can avoid their fate they cant. If survival is threatened, there is no alternative to war, however destructive.
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